Fitting Hard to Fit Hearing Loss: Part 2

1. What is NOT a characteristic of the ski slope hearing loss?

A. Beyond moderate SNHL in HF

B. Improved audibility may not always improve speech understanding

C. Full audibility increases speech understanding

D. Dead zones

2. Things to consider when fitting a ski slope hearing loss (check all that apply)

A. Make sure to measure intermediate tones if there is a difference of more than 15 dB

B. Extra bit of audibility at 2K

C. The patient hears two sound sources

D. Open fit

3. Transition regions in the audiogram are very important

True

False

4. What can be done to counteract occlusion? (check all that apply)

A. Larger vent

B. Deep bony fittings

C. Determine between amp-occlusion and occlusion

D. Increase gain above 4k

5. What are some characteristics of a reverse slope hearing loss? (check all that apply)

A. SNHL not conductive losses

B. Genetically linked

C. Usually a mild/moderate HL in low frequencies rising to normal or near normal in the high frequencies

D. Always result of noise exposure

6. With a reverse slope hearing loss, we should only give gain in the low frequencies.

True

False

7. What is NOT a suggestion when fitting a revere slope hearing loss

A. No gain between 1-2 kHz

B. At least 10-15 dB Insertion Gain above 2KHz

C. No more than 15-20 dB Insertion Gain below 2KHz

D. Advanced signal processing

8. Cookie bite hearing loss - Don’t need to pay attention to dramatic shifts in the hearing thresholds

True

False

9. Cookie bite fitting strategy is a flatter response

True

False

10. What were the three types of audiograms we discussed in this webinar? (check all the apply)

Ski slope

Reverse slope

Severe

Cookie bite

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